Mothur Overview
Mothur is a comprehensive suite of tools for microbial ecology community. It is initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Michigan. For more information, see Mothur-Wiki.
Command Documentation
The chop.seqs command reads a fasta file of sequences and outputs a .chop.fasta file containing the trimmed sequences. It works on both aligned and unaligned sequences.
v1.20.0: Updated to 1.33. Added name, group and count options for mothur version 1.31.0